The business operating system
The Compass Tool holds your direction, your numbers, your priorities and your weekly rhythm in one working system, so the company keeps moving when you step out of it.
$197 a month for five users. No credit card to start.
The FIVE GREARS
Every part of the OBS Compass has a working tool behind it, so what your leadership team learns and what your leadership team runs are the same thing.
Where are we going?
Core values, purpose and niche, the 10 Year Destination, and the plans that ladder down from it. This quarter’s 90 Day Goals sit underneath with one name on each.
Four gears build the system. Execution is the rhythm that keeps all of them turning.
Who owns what?
Structure the company by function rather than job title. One owner per seat, and the conversation about whether the right person is in it happens on a rhythm instead of at a breaking point.
Four gears build the system. Execution is the rhythm that keeps all of them turning.
How do we know?
One owner and one target per number, a 13 week trend so you read direction rather than a single bad week, and leading indicators that move before the result does.
Four gears build the system. Execution is the rhythm that keeps all of them turning.
How do we grow?
Get specific about who you serve and everything downstream gets easier to quote, price and deliver. The people selling the work and the people doing it finally read the same thing.
Four gears build the system. Execution is the rhythm that keeps all of them turning.
How do we make it repeatable?
The rhythm that makes the other four real. A live weekly agenda, commitments that carry forward until they are done, and the standards that keep critical work out of one person’s head.
Four gears build the system. Execution is the rhythm that keeps all of them turning.
The problem
Three places a growing company quietly leaks time, margin and patience.
Inside the tool
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Teams
The Responsibility Blueprint structures the company by function rather than job title. One owner per seat, no shared ownership, and no quiet gap where the same work falls through every month.
Underneath it sit the Alignment Check and Quarterly Reviews, so the conversation about whether the right person is in the right seat happens on a rhythm instead of at a breaking point.
Performance
One owner and one target per number. A 13 week trend so you are reading direction rather than a single bad week. Leading indicators that move before the result does.
When a number goes red it becomes an issue with a name on it, not a comment in a meeting nobody wrote down.
Execution
The Weekly Meeting runs a live agenda with timers, so Weekly Wins, the Scorecard, 90 Day Goals, Action Items and Issues each get their share and the meeting ends on time.
Anything decided leaves the room as an Action Item with an owner and a date, and carries forward until it is done rather than evaporating between Friday and Monday.
North Star
Operating Insights reads the quarter back to you: goal progress, where things are stalling, how quickly issues actually get resolved and which KPIs keep slipping.
It is the view you would otherwise build by hand the night before a board meeting.
Pricing
No tiers to compare, no features held back, and no upgrade prompt the week your team finally starts using the Scorecard.
Every tool in every gear is available at every seat count. Add and remove people as the team changes and the invoice follows.
$16 per month for each user after the first five.
Prices shown in [CAD or USD to confirm]. Free trial length to confirm.
Free assessment
The Company Checkup scores your business across all five gears and shows you where the friction actually sits. Ten minutes, and free whether or not you ever become a customer.
Why OBS
Optimize Business Systems was founded by Willy Schmidt and Hector Alvarado. Willy built and sold a trucking company. Hector has spent more than 27 years in logistics and operations.
The framework came out of the work, not out of a book about the work.
Mentorship
Most leadership teams do not stall because the software was wrong. They stall in week six, when the Scorecard shows something uncomfortable and nobody in the room has done this before.
Optimize Business Systems runs mentorship led implementation of the OBS Compass with an OBS Mentor who has operated real companies.
Full implementation of all five gears with an OBS Mentor.
Weekly live calls on leadership development. $49 monthly or $499 annually, with a 14 day trial.
Free, ten minutes, no strings.
The Compass Tool is licensed separately from OBS mentorship engagements. A Compass Tool subscription does not include the Compass Program, and the Compass Program does not include a Compass Tool licence.
Start free, bring your leadership team in, and run one Weekly Meeting inside the tool before you decide anything.
Not ready? Take the Company Checkup instead. Ten minutes, no card.
